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(νμς σεως), Philo accomplished for the Hellenistic Jewish world a project
comparable with Cicero’s achievement in De legibus. (HMK;basedonauthor’s
conclusion)
20689. H. P. Thyssen, ‘Philosophical Christology in the New Testament,’
Numen International Review for the History of Religions 53 (2006)
133–176.
TheideaofthisarticleistodeterminethesenseoftheLogosinthePrologueof
John’s Gospel by making use of the subsequent Christian doctrinal tradition. As
an introduction, the general influence of Hellenistic Judaism on early Christian
speculative theology and exegesis is illustrated by examples from Philo and
Justin. Further, it is argued that Justin’s scriptural argument shows that the
traditional derivation of the Logos of the Prologue from the word of creation
of Gen 1 did not exist at that early stage, since if it did, that derivation ought to
have appeared in Justin. Since no other derivation of a Logos in the cosmological
sense from the Bible is possible, the presence of this idea in John can only
be explained as the result of influence from the eclectic philosophy of Jewish
Hellenism as witnessed by Philo. (TS; based on author’s abstract)
20690. E.C.Tibbs,‘Now concerning Spiritism’: Communication with
the Spirit World as Religious Experience in First Corinthians 12 and 14
(diss. The Catholic University of America 2006).
In this investigation of the religious experience portrayed by Paul in 1Cor 12
and 14 texts from Plutarch, Josephus, Philo, and Pseudo-Philo serve as historical
witnesses contemporary with Paul to the activities of good spirits possessing
persons and speaking through them by use of the vocal chords. The study has
now been published in a revised version as a monograph in 2007 under the
title Religious Experience of the Pneuma: Communication with the Spirit World
in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14 (Tübingen). (DTR; based on author’s summary)
20691. J. L. Tinklenberg de Vega, ‘A Man Who Fears God’: Constructions
of Masculinity in Hellenistic Jewish Interpretations of the Story
of Joseph (diss. Florida State University 2006).
Hellenistic Jewish interpreters of the Bible often restructured and modified
biblicaltextsinanefforttofurthertheirownideologicalperspectives.Among
the many adaptations they made, these exegetes often sought to transform
the familiar stories to better fit or express their own constructs of gender
identity. The study attempts to uncover the ideologies of masculinity in the
depiction of Joseph in three first century Hellenistic Jewish texts: The Jewish
Antiquities of Josephus, Philo’s Somn., and the anonymous Joseph and Aseneth.
The texts are studied by means of a close reading of each author’s rhetorical
structures, particularly noting the ways terminology and literary structures
describing maleness are held in opposition to femaleness, on the assumption